Watch a golden wheel spider cartwheel away
A golden wheel spider (Carparachne aureoflava) rolling down a sand dune in Namibia, coming to rest beside another wheel spider.
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© American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Description of the use of spider combs.
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© Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Some spiders seem to “gallop” across the surface of water.
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Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Musopen String Quartet/Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Time-lapse video of a spider building a web, devouring it, and building a new one.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Spiders are the planet's top predators.
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